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  29 October 2015
  AMERICA/CANADA - The Cross of Evangelization opens the path to CAM 2018 Montreal (Agenzia Fides) - The Cross of Evangelization, the symbol of the next American Missionary Congress of 2018, was officially welcomed in Canada by the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), after arriving in the coun ...
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  29 October 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Protests in Youhanabad: other 13 Christians released on bail Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Supreme Court of Pakistan has granted bail to 13 Christians who were accused by the police and sent to prison for damaging government property during the protests on 15 March, when anger and ...
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  29 October 2015
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Archbishop Bretón Martínez contrary to the wall to prevent the entry of Haitians Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of the diocese of Santiago de los Caballeros, His Exc. Mgr. Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez, is contrary to the construction of a wall at the border to prevent the ill ...
• 29 October 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The situation is getting worse; UN and African Union open an investigation into the violations of human rights Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "Every day there are deaths and clashes in different areas of Bujumbura" report to Agenzia Fides local sources from the capital of Burundi, in the throes of a serious crisis due to the third m ...
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  29 October 2015
  OCEANIA/FIJI - Hydrological risk: 90,000 people need food and water Suva (Agenzia Fides) - The Fiji islands are going through a difficult period because of the hydrological risk that affects 67,000 people, or 13% of the population in the Country. The production of sugar cane has declined ...
• 29 October 2015
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - The elections in Zanzibar revoked due to "serious irregularities" Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - Concern for the annulment of the presidential, parliamentary and local election results in the semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar, decided by the Independent Electoral Commission of T ...
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  29 October 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Alencherry: "India has to deal with serious issues, not the consumption of beef" Kochi (Agenzia Fides) - "India has more serious problems to deal with, rather than waste time arguing about people’s eating habits": said Cardinal George Alencherry, head of the Syro-Malabar Church in India, speaking o ...
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  29 October 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Mission's appeal: "Let us remember the most vulnerable children at Christmas" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - With the festive season nearly upon us again, Catholic Mission Australia is urging its supporters to remember the most vulnerable children around the world this Christmas. In the statement sent t ...
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  29 October 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni: Only peace will save the indigenous Christian communities in Mesopotamia Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In Iraq and Syria, "without peace, there is no hope for anyone", and only the end of sectarian conflicts can ensure the survival of the indigenous Christian communities in Mesopotamia. This is how ...
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  28 October 2015
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Violence on the faithful and demolition of churches: intolerance in Aceh increases Banda Aceh (Agenzia Fides) - The demolition of three small Christian religious buildings (two protestant, one Catholic) in the Indonesian province of Aceh on the island of Sumatra, and the flight of about 8,000 faithful, ...
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  28 October 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - Six months after the earthquake, the work of reconstruction of Caritas continues Kathmandhu (Agenzia Fides) - Six months after the two devastating earthquakes that hit Nepal in April, causing destruction for more than eight million people, Caritas Nepal, together with the global network of Caritas In ...
• 28 October 2015
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Archbishop of Bangui tells Fides that he was not kidnapped during a visit to the Central Mosque Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We were only threatened verbally, but the fact that we were kidnapped, as reported by some media, is not true", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, ...
• 28 October 2015
  VATICAN - Urbaniana University: to form men and women capable of becoming bridges of relationships and instruments of mutual understanding Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I have a strong belief, many times expressed by Pope Francis, that ecclesial institutions can become a leaven of peace and of human and spiritual development among the peoples. This is why ...
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  28 October 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The anti-interoceanic canal march suspended, but the population still opposes Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Opponents of the Interoceanic Canal project of Nicaragua, to connect the Atlantic and Pacific ocean (see Fides 15/06/2015) suspended the planned march yesterday, 27 October, which was to end in ...
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  28 October 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in Darfur Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The Ministry of Health of Sudan has acknowledged deaths caused by the spread of haemorrhagic fever in Darfur, especially in the east and central States. Medical sources in Khartoum reported to ...